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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 6 (search)
confer of between his Majesty and myself. . . . And he informed them, that it was the richest country in the world. Don Ferdinand de Soto was very desirous to have him with him, and made him a favorable offer; and after they were agreed, because Soto gave him not a sum of money which he demanded to buy a ship, they broke off again . . . . . The Portuguese departed from Elvas the 15th of January, and came to Seville the 19th of the same month, and went to the lodging of the governor, and enttilians, for the most part, did wear very bad and rusty shirts of mail, and all of them head-pieces and steel caps, and very bad lances; and some of them sought to come among the Portuguese. So those passed, and were counted and enrolled, which Soto liked and accepted of, and did accompany him into Florida, which were in all six hundred men. He had already bought seven ships, and had all necessary provision aboard them. He appointed captains, and delivered to every one his ship, and gave the
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
the angry jealousies of the conquerors of Peru, Soto had seasonably withdrawn, to display his opulened in gold. The news spread great contentment; Soto and his troops were restless with longing for tt prospects. I will not turn back, said 1539. Soto, till I have seen the poverty of the country wi hostile, and yet too poor to promise plunder. Soto retreated towards the north; his troops Nov 18 Vega says January. L. III. c. XXXVI. opened, Soto, as he Mar. had usually done with other tribes82, 250, and 251. McCulloh disagrees, 526—528. Soto had heard June. its praises; he believed in it who is in heaven, for whatsoever ye need, said Soto in reply; and the sublime doctrine, which, thoune 19, to July 29. the northernmost point which Soto reached near the Mississippi, he remained fortytivated; and the few inhabitants were hunters. Soto turned, therefore, to the west and north-west, mber entered Sept. 10. the River Panuco. On Soto's expedition, by far the best account is that o[12 more...]